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...actions to resist or diminish the aggressive power of world Communism are protected by an umbrella-the superiority of the anti-Communist world in atomic bombs and in the long-range ability to equip and sustain modern armies, navies and air forces. The U.S. superiority in atomic bombs is probably at least 10 to 1. The superiority of the free world over the Communist world in steel production is 4 to 1, in oil 10 to 1, in aluminum...
...Appeasement. Mr. Hoover was convinced that the U.S. should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...Pearl Harbor, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. ("Rowboat") Matthews said he was off on a tour of the Pacific "in order to better equip myself for performance of my duties...
With the money, the French would speed equipment to their forces in Indo-China, and build up inside their own country an army which would bear the first brunt of any Russian attack in Western Europe. They would fully equip five existing divisions with U.S. arms, and would call up and arm four new divisions with U.S. money. And they would equip another division-the tenth-out of their own pockets...
France undertakes to equip ten divisions by 1951's end. The goal for European defense at the end of 1952 is 60 divisions, including five from...